ANDRETTI: “I couldn’t be any happier for ppc racing, with Kenny Wallace finishing eighth and I got ninth. It’s a good run for us. It’s my best finish in the Busch Series, even though I haven’t been there long and I’m still a Raybestos Rookie. All I care about coming out of Bristol is with a car in one piece. The result is going to come if you can do that. We lost all that practice and we’re still figuring out where we need to be. The guys did a great job during the race. The car kept getting better and better. I kind of messed up on one of the pit stops. I was supposed to come in and I didn’t come in and we ended up getting up to second but we had old tires. But then those other guys ran for a while so when we got new tires I was able to drive all the way back up through. One, it hurt us and then in the end it really helped us so it was the right move. Rick Gay [crew chief] did a great job with all that. I’m excited for Greg Pollex [car owner]. He’s been through a lot the last couple of years with ppc racing. After winning a championship in 2000 we’re dig back in and get competitive and get up there. This is not an aero track like a mile-and-a-half and that’s where we probably need to do some work. And we have a good plan and I think we’re getting there.” WILL THE TEAM BE FIRED UP AT THE SHOP BECAUSE YOU HAD BOTH CARS FINISH IN THE TOP-10? “It’s a good points day. We needed it. We haven’t had one all season and we’ve been real conservative because we wanted to just get in the top-30 because I’m not the best qualifier at Bristol. I said ‘We’ll race okay but I won’t qualify worth a darn’ and lo and behold we didn’t get to qualify. I’m just really happy for the team. We’re stepping our way there. We don’t have five teammates, we don’t have the Cup teams with us but that even makes it better. We’ll just have to work harder and I guess we’ll have to want it more to get it and I think we have the guys to do that.” IS THIS THE MOST BIZARRE RACE YOU’VE EXPERIENCED AT BRISTOL? “This was the oddest day I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a racetrack where it snowed and they dried it up and it snowed again. And not a light snow, like a blizzard and it did it twice. I’m just glad we’re getting out of here and not having to run on Monday [LAUGHS].” ARE YOU BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL AT AN AERO-DEPENDENT TRACK LIKE TEXAS? “It does with the bigger cars because they’re doing things mechanically to help their aero and we’re not there yet. We’re figuring it out and I think we’re pretty good but I can’t say that we’re going to figure it out by then. We’ve got a good plan for there. We get to test at Richmond next week before we go to Texas. I think when we go to Texas we’ll be better than we were at Atlanta. We were a 12th to 18th-place car at most places like that. If we can make that step, and we’re not that far off, I think we’ll be okay.” HOW IMPORTANT IS THAT TEST AT RICHMOND? “It’s real important. The sad part is that they moved it up on us 30 days and now we’re just trying to get there.”

DANNY O’QUINN JR. IN THE No. 50 BARR-NUNN FORD SCORED HIS BEST FINISH IN SIX CAREER BUSCH SERIES RACES, CLAIMING AN 11TH-PLACE FINISH. HIS PREVIOUS BEST EFFORT WAS 18TH AT DAYTONA. “We were running so far back that when we come down pit road we could only take two tires. The car wasn’t turning already and that was making this worse only having time to get two tires because the track is so small without losing a lap. We just had to ride it out until we could get some track position and get four tires on the car and make adjustments we needed. They made an awesome call on pit road that freed me up a lot and the car was just awesome there at the end.” HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO HAVE A GOOD RUN AND GET SOME MOMENTUM? “This is a big step. Tonight went good for us. We didn’t tear the car up any. Pit stops were awesome. The crew made awesome calls. Everybody on the team did a good job. No problems tonight. We needed a day like this to get the team on the same page and having a good run with all those factors just gets the morale boosted up. We were way back in the points and it was a big points day for us so I think going to Texas everybody is just pumped up now and it will be good.” HOW SPECIAL WAS IT TO RUN WELL AT BRISTOL, YOUR HOME TRACK? “It’s definitely special. If there was anywhere we wanted to run good at, if there was any race that I wanted to win this year it was Bristol. We learned a lot and maybe we can come back here in the fall and show them what we can do.” A BUNCH OF ROUSH GUYS FINISHED IN THE TOP-10. “Our Roush cars ran really well. We’ll go back and talk to them a little bit and get ours tweaked in. We’re not that far off of them now. We need to build on this and go to Texas and get us a run like this.” COMMENT ON THE WEATHER CONDITIONS. “That’s crazy. I figured we’d be running on Monday. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a racetrack and it cover the ground in snow right between the runs [LAUGHS]. It was a crazy day but it felt really good in the racecar. It didn’t feel like you run 10 laps out there as cool as it was.”

TRACY HINES IN THE No. 14 TURBINES INC. DODGE SCORED HIS BEST FINISH IN 11 BUSCH SERIES STARTS AT BRISTOL, GRABBING A 13TH-PLACE EFFORT. HINES PREVIOUS BEST FINISH WAS 17TH IN 2004 AT MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY. “It was just solid for everybody. We needed it. At Atlanta we were faster than we finished; we just didn’t get the finish. A couple of things have happened that haven’t let us get the finishes that I felt like we deserved. Finally today I got to finish a race and that’s been a change. It was just a strong run for the guys. We have a one-race sponsor Turbines Inc. so it’s as good as we can expect for a one-race deal. The car is in great shape coming out of Bristol with a top-13 finish and your car is ready to go. We were hoping to save that car for Nashville so with a little polish it’s good to go. These guys did a good job all weekend. I felt like in practice we were going to be way better than we showed. We had something happen and we found it before qualifying so we knew we were in good shape.” HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO THIS TEAM TO HAVE A GOOD DAY? “It’s multiple important. It’s good to potential sponsors we’ve been talking to, morale for the crew, and actually the way it happened it was a shot of penicillin for the points. A good run like that, where we were in points, since we were already top-30, that’s almost guaranteeing the next two races. That helps a bunch. Now you’re not on pins and needles every time just to finish. We can still go race. The spotter all day was saying ‘Just finish, just finish.’ But when you can see the front up there it’s hard to just back off. I felt like I drove as smart as I could because there were some guys coming up that I could have probably tried to hold off but they might have spun me and for us, 13th was better than in the pits.”

TODD KLUEVER, No. 06 3M FORD: “It just started bad this morning. We had a really good car in practice. I just don’t have a lot of experience here and I made a mistake and spun it getting off 2 and wrecked the car in practice. We had a really good car at the start of the race, too. I was just racing there with Jason Keller, not that he was doing anything wrong. He was doing what he was supposed to do and pinched me off a little bit there and I just caught the apron there a little bit. It moved the rear end in the car a little bit when I hit the frontstretch wall there but it wasn’t bad. If nothing else it was salvageable to get a decent finish here and good enough to go home and put a side on it and take it back to the racetrack. We’re kind of short on cars with all the teams we’ve got going on. That was a brand new car that we raced last week in Atlanta and it was out backup here. I’m sure it was going to be our Texas primary. We really dug ourselves a hole in car count. That deal with Steven, I’m not a very vocal guy about things…it was really unfortunate for my guys. That car was good enough to get fixed and go to Texas and now it’s killed. It’s no secret we weren’t have a very good and it’s no secret he wasn’t having a very good day, either. He just flat out run us over. It’s pretty dumb on his part. We’ll go home and piece together something to go to Texas with, maybe borrow a teammate’s car or something like that.”